Engage in Race, Culture, & Equity
The time is Now
Recent racial and cultural events have shaken our society's consciousness. This shake provides us with the opportunity for educational systems to address the systemic inequities that keep Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Multilingual students in the achievement gap. However, how and where should we begin?
The work of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has evolved over the last decade. Though many organizations say they are engaged in DEI work, the systems remain unchanged, and the opportunity and achievement gap data remain just as spacious as they did decades ago. We want to help you seize the opportunity to engage in the intentional work of racial and cultural inclusion.
What we offer
The goal of layering learning of race & culture within your organizational initiatives is to investigate the many questions we have about race, equity, and inclusion, and to recognize how justice is a pathway forward to attacking and diminishing the achievement and opportunity gaps. The connected learning series shifts away from a simple broad focus on diversity but takes a personal-first approach to investigate our personal and social connections to race, culture, and multilingualism.
Taking an inclusion-first approach, the learning is threaded across all service aspects to build knowledge grounded in learning, processing, and practice. This provides participants with time to learn how interpersonal beliefs, thoughts, and actions connect us to the institutional and structural systems we are all a part of.
A combination of synchronous and asynchronous sessions guides participants through the sequence. EIX works with districts to build teacher, staff, and leadership capacity to take on and sustain this work in a grounded and substantive way connected to existing initiatives (and not as an additional strategy or program).